Waldo P. Johnson

Waldo Porter Johnson (16 September 1817-14 August 1885) was a US Senator from Missouri (D) from 17 March 1861 to 10 January 1862, succeeding James S. Green and preceding Robert Wilson.

Biography
Waldo Porter Johnson was born in Bridgeport, West Virginia in 1817, and he became a lawyer in Harison County in 1841. He moved to Osceola, Missouri in 1842, and he served in the US Army during the Mexican-American War, as a state legislator, as a circuit attorney, and as a judge. In 1861, he was elected to the US Senate as a Democrat, but he was expelled from the Senate due to his disloyalty to the government, and he served as a Confederate Senator from 1863 to 1865. He presided over his state's 1875 constitutional convention, and he died in 1885.